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The author's canary costs about $0.4 per month in LLM calls, with 720 runs, each processing just 10 tokens with one cheapest model.
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10/18/2026
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Valid until: 11/1/2026
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UnverifiedThe author's monthly running cost for local LLM inference in the first three months (hardware amortization plus electricity) was about $58 to $73, versus a cloud API monthly bill of about $180 to $240 at equivalent usage, a net saving of $107 to $180 per month, breaking even around the fourth month.72% similarUnverifiedCalculated at the paired public unit prices ($0.28 per million input, $1.10 per million output), the 400-case single hosted run costs $1.1061, and τ=0.4 costs $0.0747.69% similarUnverifiedIn a natural language search scenario (100,000 requests per month, each with about 200 input tokens and 100 output tokens, with model pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens), the monthly cost is about $70.68% similar
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